Srinivasan Ravichandran

You Are a River: Reorienting a Civic WaterBot from the Bottom Up

This paper reports on a design discovery: while iterating on WaterBot, a prompt-engineered water chatbot, we developed RiverBot, a minimal role-based conversational agent that speaks as a river. Building on prior custom chatbot designs that implemented retrieval augmented generation, safety guardrails, and explicit in…